Executive Assistant / Administrative Associate

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The Aspen Institute

The Aspen Institute is a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free, just, and equitable society. Since its founding in 1949, the Institute has been driving change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve the most critical challenges facing communities in the United States and around the world. Headquartered in Washington, DC, the Institute has a campus in Aspen, Colorado, and an international network of partners.

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College Excellence Program (CEP)

The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program (CEP) aims to identify and replicate practices and policies that significantly improve college student outcomes. Through our portfolio of projects, CEP works to improve colleges’ capacity to achieve high levels of success for all students and to eliminate disparities in postsecondary attainment and social mobility for students from low-income backgrounds and historically marginalized and underserved groups. Our work focuses on improving higher education institutions in six areas: ensuring high-quality learning, increasing completion rates, improving community college transfer and baccalaureate attainment, increasing post-college employment and earnings outcomes, ensuring strong access to college credentials of value, and achieving equity in outcomes across all domains. We advance those outcomes by quantitatively identifying and publicly elevating those colleges achieving excellent and equitable outcomes, conducting research on how those outcomes were accomplished, publishing reports and practical tools to support college leaders and practitioners interested in replicating effective practices, and conducting professional development programs for presidents, senior teams, boards of trustees, and others. Learn more about our work at https://highered.aspeninstitute.org/.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

The College Excellence Program seeks an administrative professional to support CEP’s Leadership and Field Engagement (LFE) division. Qualified candidates will have at least three years of experience as an executive assistant or in administrative roles focused on coordination, planning, and logistics support for a large program team. Experience must show an ability to orchestrate complex administrative duties such as (1) managing calendars, schedules, and travel arrangements; (2) supporting program teams and logistics; and (3) facilitating stakeholder communications and organizational collaboration. Our ideal candidate is extremely enthusiastic about accomplishing administrative tasks that support program priorities and an organization’s overall mission. Further, our ideal candidate is sufficiently detail-oriented; exercises good judgment and discretion; and brings a proactive mindset that helps solve problems, applies learning to improve administrative support, and seeks opportunities to build relationships and trust. Experience in the nonprofit or education sector is preferred.

This position is based in the Aspen Institute’s Washington, DC office with a minimum of 40% in-person work (two days per week) and a target salary range of $62,500 - $72,500. This position will report to CEP’s Assistant Director